On my laptop:With windows running Putty I do control my Sharp Aquos LC52X20E with e.g. "POWR1 " & "POWR0 " or any other command from the manual.

On my Core:Have 2 serial ports (one on the Motherboard which is not connected and one on a pci card which is connected to the TV)Found the serial card which is connected to be /dev/ttyS1 (Port 0xdc00)Only these 2 serial ports are reported with UART 16550A when I run setserial -g /dev/ttyS[012345678]

1 pull your pci card with comport out2 re enable your comport on your mobo and reconnect rs232 from tv to comport3 do not specify comport setting from within lmce but let lmce detect the port for you, if you have to change speed settings etc... do that from within the bios4 make sure that you can test with the commands there after and make sure the cable is null modem

Tortho, I had to recently rebuild my entire system and my Aquos TV did not get auto detected. I had to manually add it and specify the serial port in the webadmin. So I can confirm that autodetection sometimes doesn't work, it could be just my system thought. (I couldn't even locate the auto detect shell script anywhere)

echo "Sharp TV Detection script queue $2"/usr/pluto/bin/TestSerialPort -p $3 -P N81 -b 9600 -t "POWR0 \r\s500mPOWR1 \r" -i 1 -s "OK\r"if [[ "$?" -ne 0 ]]; thenecho "It's not a Sharp TV"/usr/pluto/bin/MessageSend dcerouter -r 0 $1 1 806 224 $2 13 "$4" 44 0elseecho "It is a Sharp TV"/usr/pluto/bin/MessageSend dcerouter -r 0 $1 1 806 224 $2 13 "$4" 44 1856fiI am not sure how they are triggered but when they are you can see them all being run until the correct one is found and then Sara comes up and asks how the TV is connected and basically helps you set up the audio and video pipes. You could, as Stallione said, add it manually and set up the pipes yourself and see if that works the template you want is: